Chapter 189: Nether-type Soul Pet, Soul-Locking Imp

The first two levels gave Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword a lot of improvements.

The difficulty of the levels also increased accordingly.

The third level was called the Ghost Crying Prison.

Generally, those who could make it past the second level would fail at this one, with over ninety percent failing.

Wang Che did not know the progress of the other students behind him. He led Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword toward the third level.

They passed through the half-hour buffer plain again.

They arrived at the entrance of the third level.

Even before entering the third level, just standing at the entrance, they could hear mournful sounds that seemed to shake the soul.

“Woo… woo… woo…”

“This sound is very netherworldly…”

Wang Che glanced at Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword.

He roughly understood the challenge of the third level.

The third level was a stage that involved combat.

Judging by the sounds, it was likely they would face real psychic attacks.

From Wang Che’s perception, these mournful sounds contained psychic attacks that could damage the souls of Soul Pets.

At the same time, some quite special Soul Beasts would appear.

The third level, Ghost Crying Prison.

Standing at the entrance and looking ahead, there was a vast field of withered graves, filled with countless broken stones, dead trees, and remnants. In some places, strange resources grew, and round, shadowy figures floated in the air, occasionally revealing a ferocious face.

Those mournful sounds came from these shadowy figures.

“The oppressive feeling of this place is even stronger than the initial environment.”

Wang Che looked at those shadowy figures.

They were very rare Nether-type Soul Pets, Soul-Locking Imps.

Nether-type Soul Pets did not exist before the great inter-dimensional invasion war thousands of years ago.

They were true pure spirit Soul Pets, without physical bodies, entirely formed from a special type of nether life.

They were immune to almost all conventional Soul Skill attacks.

Because they had no physical form, normal attacks could not hit them.

Moreover, the Nether-type could disturb the minds of living beings, making them particularly effective against Psychic-type Soul Pets.

They were one of the very few existences that could counter Psychic-type Soul Pets.

Wang Che vaguely knew a bit about the origin of Nether-type Soul Pets. They were formed when the energy aura of the invading Soul Ghosts from other worlds merged with some Soul Beasts, creating new forms of life.

These Soul Pets were troublesome to deal with.

The Psychic-type Soul Pets that had proudly made it this far would be completely suppressed here, forced to withdraw in regret.

Even in the early-stage Soul Illusion Realm, these six trial levels would not make it easy for Psychic-type Soul Pets.

In the first two levels, Psychic-type Soul Pets had a clear advantage.

But once they reached this level, without proper preparation, they would almost certainly fail.

Even if they were not Psychic-type Soul Pets, other types of Soul Pets would likely lose when facing a Soul-Locking Imp in such an environment.

“Soul-Locking Imp, a Soul Pet of the new era. They usually only live in places abundant with Soul Energy… Their Racial Potential is rare. Their Second Stage Evolution is Soul Ghost General, and their Third Stage Evolution is Nether Soul King. A Monarch Rank Soul Pet. They are basically never seen in the outside world.”

Outside, not to mention Soul-Locking Imps,

it was even hard to catch a glimpse of any Nether-type Soul Pet.

This type of Soul Pet is even harder to raise than Psychic-type ones.

They are pure spirits, and most of them don’t look very appealing.

Their growth cycle is relatively long, their evolution methods are not fixed, and they are not closely tied to Soul Power Cultivation.

Young Nether-type Soul Pets also find it difficult to coexist peacefully with humans.

Because they are not entirely native Soul Beasts of this world and don’t share strong common traits with the world’s Soul Beasts.

They are more like life forms created through historical merging.

They are not very compatible with the human Life Soul Pact.

Few people choose Nether-type Soul Pets.

Their aggressiveness towards humans is also much higher than that of other Soul Pets.

“In the Ghost Crying Prison, there are so many Soul-Locking Imps… and even some Soul Ghost Generals… This third level must be the real threshold.”

Wang Che thought to himself.

The difficulty of this level had increased significantly compared to before.

At the same time, some rare resources containing Soul Energy also grew here.

As the difficulty increased, the rewards for succeeding would also be greater.

“Sii wu sii wu!”

Green Caterpillar stood at the entrance, looking at the ghostly figures floating in the air.

The fear embedded in its genes made it uncomfortable.

Soul Pets in their ordinary forms tend to be afraid of the Nether-type.

This fear is not due to type disadvantage or related to life itself.

It is connected to history.

Thousands of years ago, those Soul Ghosts slaughtered countless Soul Beasts, driving many to extinction.

Later, those Soul Ghosts were eliminated by the combined efforts of human experts and Soul Beasts.

The residual energy auras merged with many Soul Beasts at the time and, over a long period, became Nether-type Soul Pets.

Nether-type Soul Pets carry the energy aura left by the Soul Ghosts of the past.

Therefore, Nether-type Soul Pets have a natural intimidation effect on most Soul Pets.

This intimidation is related to historical memory and genetic inheritance.

This type of counter is not part of the type advantage knowledge taught in high school.

It belongs to university-level knowledge.

“Next, we have to face this level…”

Wang Che smiled. “But for us, this level isn’t actually very difficult.”

Nether-type Soul Pets have a natural enemy.

No Soul Pet is invincible.

Their natural enemy…

Wang Che looked at the Magnetic Sword beside him…

Was lightning, specifically Heavenly Thunder.

Nether-type Soul Pets are very afraid of Heavenly Thunder; it is their only weakness.

So this level was relatively easy for the Magnetic Sword.

For any other attribute type, the effects against Nether-type Soul Pets were quite limited.

“This level depends on your performance now.”

Wang Che encouraged the Magnetic Sword.

Then, taking his two Soul Pets, he observed the Wailing Prison for a moment before entering directly.

The moment they stepped into the range of the Wailing Prison.

Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword’s souls felt a strong impact.

The mournful sounds kept coming, even stronger than outside the level!

But at this time, the training from the past few days showed its effect again.

Having experienced Wang Che’s Spiritual Pressure shocks, they now had some resistance to this kind of spiritual impact.

With their Spiritual Power, they could face these mournful sounds for at least half an hour without being too obviously disturbed.

At the same time.

Three Soul-Locking Imps immediately floated over.

The dark shadows on their bodies were their heads, with two black curved horns on top.

Beside their large mouths, there was a small hand formed from dark shadows, one hand holding a black fork.

The other hand held a dark black chain.

This was the normal form of Soul-Locking Imps.

After evolution, their bodies would become more human-like.

The three Soul-Locking Imps had quite high Soul Power Cultivation, all over six hundred years.

“Magnetic Sword, go give it a try.”

Wang Che said.

Magnetic Sword was about to fly out…

“Sii wu!”

Green Caterpillar stepped forward and called out twice.

Meaning, let me try first!

Little Swordie, step back!

Magnetic Sword looked at Wang Che.

Wang Che thought for a moment and said, “Alright, you give it a try then.”

It was the first time Green Caterpillar encountered Nether-type Soul Pets.

Three six-hundred-year Soul Beasts—it thought it could handle them.

Indeed, if they were other Soul Beasts, Green Caterpillar could handle them easily.

But this time…

Green Caterpillar watched the three attacking Soul-Locking Imps.

It calmed its mind and focused.

It opened its mouth and spat out three beams of scorching light.

The light suddenly exploded mid-air, turning into a scorching Insect Net!

It instantly trapped the three Soul-Locking Imps.

The ghosts were caught in the Insect Net, which made Little Caterpillar very proud.

It felt like these little things looked scary, but they weren’t that strong, right?

Then, Little Caterpillar immediately swung its tail, launching three spiral fireballs in a row.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three loud explosions hit the three Soul-Locking Imps.

Little Caterpillar didn’t even look back, turning around proudly to look at Wang Che.

How was that?

Wang Che: “…”

Wang Che pointed behind Little Caterpillar.

Little Caterpillar turned around confused and saw the three Soul-Locking Imps’ dark shadows glowing with an eerie light.

Their bodies seemed to be strengthened somehow.

Though still trapped in the Insect Net, they didn’t seem to be hurt much.

“Nether Energy Armor—it covers the whole body with special Netherworld Life Energy, greatly reducing the power of attribute attacks.”

Wang Che said, “Your two moves only caused average damage to them. To defeat them instantly, you’d need to hit them at least five times in a row. This is one of the Netherworld Type’s specialties; it effectively resists strong attribute Soul Skills.”

“And, look around…”

Wang Che pointed around.

The huge explosions attracted more Soul-Locking Imps from afar.

Soon, over ten Soul-Locking Imps flew over from all directions.

Little Caterpillar saw this and thought, oh no, I messed up.

It shook its head, looked left and right, then quietly returned to Wang Che’s side, cautiously hiding behind Magnetic Sword.

Little Caterpillar’s reckless actions directly increased the difficulty.

With nearly ten more Soul-Locking Imps, even if Magnetic Sword used its red lightning to cast Soul Skills, it would be hard to handle now.

Wang Che grabbed Little Caterpillar like picking up a chick, “Why are you backing off? Use the combined Soul Skill! With just three Soul-Locking Imps, Magnetic Sword had a chance. Now there are seven or eight more—do you think Little Swordie can handle them?”

Little Caterpillar suddenly remembered—they had the combined Soul Skill!

They had been training with the combined Soul Skill these past few days.

“I won’t help you; you have to solve this yourselves.”

Wang Che stepped aside, leaving their battlefield.

Little Caterpillar immediately raised its tail, gathering flames, and gave Magnetic Sword a look.

Magnetic Sword flew over and started spinning around Little Caterpillar, emitting red lightning.

However, not long after.

The three trapped Soul-Locking Imps broke free from the Insect Net and rushed toward Green Caterpillar and Magnetic Sword first.

The two little ones were concentrating on gathering their combined Soul Skill.

Little Caterpillar glanced and immediately saw the three Soul-Locking Imps coming at them.

“Sii wu sii wu!”

Little Caterpillar cried out.

It’s dangerous! Hurry up, hurry up!

Magnetic Sword paused, looked too, and then started spinning frantically